Easterling, David R.Watson, Layne T.Madigan, Michael L.Castle, Brent S.Trosset, Michael W.2013-06-192013-06-192011http://hdl.handle.net/10919/19395The optimization of three problems with high dimensionality and many local minima are investigated under five different optimization algorithms: DIRECT, simulated annealing, Spall’s SPSA algorithm, the KNITRO package, and QNSTOP, a new algorithm developed at Indiana University.application/pdfenIn CopyrightNumerical analysisParallel computationParallel Deterministic and Stochastic Global Minimization of Functions with Very Many MinimaTechnical reportTR-11-19http://eprints.cs.vt.edu/archive/00001167/01/dirCOAP10c.pdf